Abstract

The EU Horizon 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en) research project “Solutionsets for the Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings – CoNZEBs” (www.conzebs.eu)started in June 2017. CoNZEBs will identify and assess technology solution sets that lead tosignificant cost reductions of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings in four EU member states:Denmark, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The focus of the project is on multi-family houses. Theproject will start by setting baseline costs for conventional new buildings, currently available NZEBand buildings that go beyond the NZEB level. The CoNZEBs project will end ultimo 2019.The project will use the basic characteristics of NZEB to first identify technologies that can be mademore cost-efficient if applied to NZEB. Secondly, these technologies will be combined into costefficientsolution sets or concepts for NZEB. The technology solution sets will include approachesthat can reduce costs for installations or generation systems, pre-fabrication and constructionacceleration, local low temperature district heating including renewable energy systems (RES), andmany more.All solution sets will be assessed regarding cost savings using life cycle costs (LCC) analysis, energyperformance and applicability in multi-family houses. A life cycle environmental impact assessment(LCA) of different building levels and NZEB using the solution sets will provide a longer-termperspective. The results of the LCC and LCA analyses will be compared to those obtained forconventional buildings built according to current building regulations and conventionally built NZEB.The paper presents the status of this work, which includes the definition of reference buildings, theidentified solution sets and the first LCC and LCA calculations performed with ASCOT_LCA

title = "Life-cycle assessment of near zero energy buildings (NZEB) in comparison with regular new buildings",

abstract = "The EU Horizon 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en) research project “Solutionsets for the Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings – CoNZEBs” (www.conzebs.eu)started in June 2017. CoNZEBs will identify and assess technology solution sets that lead tosignificant cost reductions of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings in four EU member states:Denmark, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The focus of the project is on multi-family houses. Theproject will start by setting baseline costs for conventional new buildings, currently available NZEBand buildings that go beyond the NZEB level. The CoNZEBs project will end ultimo 2019.The project will use the basic characteristics of NZEB to first identify technologies that can be mademore cost-efficient if applied to NZEB. Secondly, these technologies will be combined into costefficientsolution sets or concepts for NZEB. The technology solution sets will include approachesthat can reduce costs for installations or generation systems, pre-fabrication and constructionacceleration, local low temperature district heating including renewable energy systems (RES), andmany more.All solution sets will be assessed regarding cost savings using life cycle costs (LCC) analysis, energyperformance and applicability in multi-family houses. A life cycle environmental impact assessment(LCA) of different building levels and NZEB using the solution sets will provide a longer-termperspective. The results of the LCC and LCA analyses will be compared to those obtained forconventional buildings built according to current building regulations and conventionally built NZEB.The paper presents the status of this work, which includes the definition of reference buildings, theidentified solution sets and the first LCC and LCA calculations performed with ASCOT_LCA",

T1 - Life-cycle assessment of near zero energy buildings (NZEB) in comparison with regular new buildings

AU - Mørck, Ove

AU - Thomsen, Kirsten Engelund

AU - Wittchen, Kim Bjarne

N1 - Conference code: 3

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - The EU Horizon 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en) research project “Solutionsets for the Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings – CoNZEBs” (www.conzebs.eu)started in June 2017. CoNZEBs will identify and assess technology solution sets that lead tosignificant cost reductions of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings in four EU member states:Denmark, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The focus of the project is on multi-family houses. Theproject will start by setting baseline costs for conventional new buildings, currently available NZEBand buildings that go beyond the NZEB level. The CoNZEBs project will end ultimo 2019.The project will use the basic characteristics of NZEB to first identify technologies that can be mademore cost-efficient if applied to NZEB. Secondly, these technologies will be combined into costefficientsolution sets or concepts for NZEB. The technology solution sets will include approachesthat can reduce costs for installations or generation systems, pre-fabrication and constructionacceleration, local low temperature district heating including renewable energy systems (RES), andmany more.All solution sets will be assessed regarding cost savings using life cycle costs (LCC) analysis, energyperformance and applicability in multi-family houses. A life cycle environmental impact assessment(LCA) of different building levels and NZEB using the solution sets will provide a longer-termperspective. The results of the LCC and LCA analyses will be compared to those obtained forconventional buildings built according to current building regulations and conventionally built NZEB.The paper presents the status of this work, which includes the definition of reference buildings, theidentified solution sets and the first LCC and LCA calculations performed with ASCOT_LCA

AB - The EU Horizon 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en) research project “Solutionsets for the Cost reduction of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings – CoNZEBs” (www.conzebs.eu)started in June 2017. CoNZEBs will identify and assess technology solution sets that lead tosignificant cost reductions of new Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings in four EU member states:Denmark, Germany, Italy and Slovenia. The focus of the project is on multi-family houses. Theproject will start by setting baseline costs for conventional new buildings, currently available NZEBand buildings that go beyond the NZEB level. The CoNZEBs project will end ultimo 2019.The project will use the basic characteristics of NZEB to first identify technologies that can be mademore cost-efficient if applied to NZEB. Secondly, these technologies will be combined into costefficientsolution sets or concepts for NZEB. The technology solution sets will include approachesthat can reduce costs for installations or generation systems, pre-fabrication and constructionacceleration, local low temperature district heating including renewable energy systems (RES), andmany more.All solution sets will be assessed regarding cost savings using life cycle costs (LCC) analysis, energyperformance and applicability in multi-family houses. A life cycle environmental impact assessment(LCA) of different building levels and NZEB using the solution sets will provide a longer-termperspective. The results of the LCC and LCA analyses will be compared to those obtained forconventional buildings built according to current building regulations and conventionally built NZEB.The paper presents the status of this work, which includes the definition of reference buildings, theidentified solution sets and the first LCC and LCA calculations performed with ASCOT_LCA